Stress Relief with Simple Foot Massage - ModernMom Massage & Reflexology

hi I'm Michelle and I'm a massage expert I'm here with modern mom today to give you some really quick easy tips for stress relief that you can do anywhere anytime [Music] I'm going to show you some tips on reflexology techniques for stress relief the first one is the solar plexus which is right in the middle of the foot and you want to place your thumbs you can use two thumbs right in the middle of the foot and make small circles now reflexology is based on the idea that every part of your body every nerve every oregon is connected to your feet hands and ears so in this case your feet this is the solar plexus which is the nerve center of the body it's located in the body right behind the diaphragm so what you're doing by pressing here and making small circles is you're affecting that part of the body the solar plexus and you're sending calming energy to the entire body and you want to do this for maybe five to ten seconds and then we're going to move to the big toe right here the fleshy part of the big toe and you want firm pressure and this is the reflexology area to the brain and pressing here can help relieve headaches migraine headaches even and you want to either make circles like this with your thumb and your your pressure is firm or you can just hold it in steps yeah static pressure next if your stress out you might have some back pain so if you move to the heel of the foot on both feet on the inner edge of the foot and slowly work your thumbs with firm pressure all the way up from the heel to the big toe and this is working your entire back it's releasing stress it's loosening up your back and you can do this several times back here down by the heel is the lower back so if you have lower back issues have you been sitting in a chair driving you want to focus a lot of time here and then as you move up the inner arch right here is related to the middle part of your and a lot of people are sensitive right about here and then slowly working your way up to the big toe this is the upper back right here and then as you hit them the lower part right here of the big toe this is your neck so if your stress and you have neck pain you can just press here and make small circles and now we're going to move right below the center so here's the center just move right below and this is the thymus and this is an ear a gland in the body and if you make small circles here you can actually energize your entire body and if it feels better you can just hold it I usually count to five and release and then do it again and I finally you can just take the thumbs all the way from the heel and bring it right up the center and do this several times and this should send soothing energy to your entire body [Music] so once you've worked on a one foot switch feet and definitely do the other foot so you don't feel uneven and you have stress relief throughout your entire body and if you like these tips and you want to hear more subscribe and I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment below thank you for watching [Music]